Detains are in: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) today told the Gujarat high court that the Ishrat Jahan encounter was not genuine.

The SIT has recommended that murder charges be filed against those police officers who were involved in the fake encounter of Ishrat jahan and three others.

The Gujarat high court on October 7 asked SIT, probing the encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others, to submit its final report by November 18.

That was the second time that the court had directed the SIT to submit its final report. During the hearing on September 10, the SIT was asked to give its final report by October 7. However, the team had submitted an interim report saying investigation into the case was not yet over.

During the October 7 proceedings, Verma had said that they wanted to conduct psycho-analysis test on some of the witnesses, who have turned hostile and the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) has given them time to conduct such a test between October 19 and 21.

Verma also told the court that they had some queries regarding the CFSL report on reconstruction of the encounter.

The next hearing of the case was decided to hold on November 21.

Ishrat (19), Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were allegedly killed in a police encounter here on June 15, 2004.